VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Montpellier?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CopenhagenMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 22 points.22
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score5432
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km178
Coast distance1 km9 km
Water distance1 km9 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 8 points.8
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score7365
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3734
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 49 points.49
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score7526
Museums within 10 km8314
Museums within 2 km of centre513
Share of museums within 2 km %6121
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score6738
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5883
Nightclubs within 4 km6425
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score5043
Protected land share 50 km %515
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %3970
Park area within 2 km138 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 27 points.27
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score7144
Tourist attractions within 2 km548
Park area within 2 km138 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 36 points.36
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score7438
Notable places within 2 km27335
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenMontpellier
Score5574
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months35
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
2 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
€214-241
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BastiaBIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 35 m
€184-306
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCopenhagenMontpellier
Official languageDanishFrench
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m7 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenMontpellier
City population667,099310,240
People per km²7,3395,452
Museums within 10 km7214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8265
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.